Joshua 4:1
And it came to pass, when all the nation had made an end of passing over the Jordan, that Yahweh slake unto Joshua, saying:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2Take unto you, from among the people, twelve men, one man severally from each tribe;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:2So then it shall be in the day when ye shall pass over the Jordan, into the land which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee,—that thou shalt rear thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster;
Joshua 24:11Then passed ye over the Jordan, and came in unto Jericho, and, when they would have made war with you—even the lords of Jericho—the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, then delivered I them into your hand.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 4:1
This chapter gives a further account of the miraculous passage of Israel through Jordan. I. The provision that was made at that time to preserve the memorial of it, by twelve stones set up in Jordan ( ver. 9 ) and other twelve stones taken up out of Jordan, ver. 1-8 . II. The march of the people through Jordan's channel, the two tribes first, then all the people, and the priests that bore the ark last, ver. 10-14 . III. The closing of the waters again upon their coming up with the ark, ver. 15-19 . IV. The… Read the whole commentary →